Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100084892 | STRENGTH MEMBER FOR AN AUTOMOBILE BODY, FRONT SIDE MEMBER, AND SIDE STRUCTURE FOR AN AUTOMOBILE BODY - A strength member for an automobile body such as a side member or a pillar which has a bent portion which is bent two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally and which has an ultrahigh strength with a tensile strength exceeding 1100 MPa is provided. The strength member for an automobile body has a tubular body which has a closed cross section which does not have an outwardly-extending flange and which has a bent portion which is bent two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally, a portion to be cut or punched, and a portion to be welded. The tubular body has an ultrahigh strength heat-treated portion which has been heat treated to have a tensile strength exceeding 1100 MPa, a high strength heat-treated portion which is the remainder other than the ultrahigh strength heat-treated portion and which has been heat treated to have a tensile strength of at least 600 MPa and at most 1100 MPa, and/or a low strength heat-treated portion which is the portion to be cut or punched or the portion to be welded and which has been heat treated to have a tensile strength of less than 600 MPa. | 04-08-2010 |
20100276902 | ARM MATERIAL AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - An arm material for an upper arm or a lower arm is provided which constitutes a double wishbone suspension or the like of an automobile and which has a flat, hollow, closed cross-sectional shape and enables further decreases in size, decreases in weight, and increases in strength. An arm material for an automobile suspension has a body made from a parts material made by metal. The parts material made by metal has a flat, hollow, closed cross-sectional shape having a pair of opposing long sides and is formed is from a single member in its lengthwise direction. The body has at least a first bent portion which is bent in a plane roughly parallel to the pair of long sides. | 11-04-2010 |
20120009435 | BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - A bent metal member which is obtained by bending accompanied by heat treatment of a zinc-based coated metal material and which is suitable for use in components of automobiles due to having a high strength and excellent post-painting corrosion resistance is manufactured. The outer surface of a tubular metal material having on its surface a Zn—Fe alloy coating layer with a coating weight of 30-90 g/m | 01-12-2012 |
20120013148 | HOLLOW MEMBER - A lightweight hollow member having excellent stiffness and impact properties and which is suitable for automotive parts due to having a high strength such as at least 780 MPa and a complicated shape is provided. A hollow member | 01-19-2012 |
20120175029 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT PRODUCT - A manufacturing method for a bent product which can guarantee a high working accuracy and which can provide a large bending angle without damage to the surface condition of a metal material even when a widely varying bent shape is desired or when it is necessary to perform bending of a high strength metal material. | 07-12-2012 |
20120247170 | ARM MATERIAL AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - An arm material for an upper arm or a lower arm is provided which constitutes a double wishbone suspension or the like of an automobile and which has a flat, hollow, closed cross-sectional shape and enables further decreases in size, decreases in weight, and increases in strength. | 10-04-2012 |
20120325806 | INDUCTION HEATING COIL, AND AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A WORKED MEMBER - An induction heating coil for stably heating a steel tube which is being fed in its axial direction without rotating, the heating being uniform in the circumferential direction and in a narrow range in the axial direction has at least two 1-turn coils in the form of a first turn coil body and a second turn coil body. The inner peripheral length Ln (the non-effective coil length) where the effective number of coil turns is less than the total number of coil turns when the coil is projected in the axial direction and the inner peripheral length L0 of the projected coil bodies (the inner coil length) satisfy Ln/L0<0.05. First and second coil bodies have insulating portions on their connecting portions, and the insulating portions are present in locations separated by a central angle of 5-45° measured from the center of the coil bodies. | 12-27-2012 |
20130000375 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A BENT MEMBER - A bent member having excellent dimensional accuracy is manufactured by stably forming a high temperature portion uniformly in the circumferential direction of a steel tube and in a narrow region in the axial direction of the steel. The bent member is manufactured by supporting a steel tube at a first position while feeding it, performing induction heating of the steel tube at a second position with an induction heating coil, cooling the steel tube at a third position to form a high temperature portion which moves in the axial direction of the steel tube, and three-dimensionally varying the position of a gripping mechanism for the steel tube in a region to apply a bending moment to the high temperature portion. | 01-03-2013 |
20130280548 | BENT METAL MEMBER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - A bent metal member has a body formed from a tubular metal material and has a shape which is bent two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally. The surface of the body has a Zn-based coating which contains an η phase and which satisfies the following condition: coating weight: at most 90 g/m | 10-24-2013 |